The Natural Narrative

One my projects for the summer is to watch all 100 of AFI's Greatest American Movies of All Time (note it's just American films, do all other foreign films get lumped into another sort of definitive list?)  Luckily because of Netflix I can get my hands on most of them, except the original Apocalypse Now (I can rent the Redux version), Midnight Cowboy, and The African Queen. I figure I'll have to look to VHS for those (how retro ;) )

Tonight I'm watching An American in Paris with Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron. First of all, I was a band geek who loved playing in the musical pit orchestra every year, so I love the Gershwin. And of course this movie reinforces my ridiculous idea that it would be so fun for life to be a musical for just a day. Could you imagine what life would be like if everyone on the 405 stopped, got out of their cars and started doing a synchronized song and dance routine about the horrors of L.A. traffic? Pretty damn cool.

Onward and upward with the AFI list... next up, Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

I was watching clips of Inside the Actor's Studio and thought it would be fun to do the famous questionnaire, just for shits and giggles :) If anyone reading wants to do it, go for it... it would be fun to hear responses :)

What is your favorite word?       
Serendipity

What is your least favorite word?       
Ignorance

What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Seeing beauty and joy in the simple

What turns you off creatively, spiritually or emotionally?        
Closed-mindedness

What sound or noise do you love?       
Horses nickering. The concentrated silence of a library.

What sound or noise do you hate?       
Alarm clocks and ambulance

What is your favorite curse word?       
Fuck and all of its glorious variations

What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
Screenwriter

What profession would you not like to do?
One of those cleanup crews that comes after homicides, suicides, and accidents (I think I watch too much Law and Order)

If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
All of your favorite authors, directors and heroes are sitting at that table over there. Go talk to them all you want :)